Practice question · Put in order
Order the whole human journey, oldest first.
- Monuments, metal, and long-distance trade networks
- Homo sapiens appears in Africa
- Brain expansion accelerates, paid for by meat and fire
- Symbolic behaviour: engraved ochre, beads, then painted caves
- Farming begins independently in seven regions
- Writing appears, and we start calling it history
- Hominins walk upright on ape-sized brains
- The ice retreats; foragers settle in rich landscapes
Hints
- The sequence spans several million years.
- Writing appears at the very end of it.
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- Hominins walk upright on ape-sized brains
- Brain expansion accelerates, paid for by meat and fire
- Homo sapiens appears in Africa
- Symbolic behaviour: engraved ochre, beads, then painted caves
- The ice retreats; foragers settle in rich landscapes
- Farming begins independently in seven regions
- Monuments, metal, and long-distance trade networks
- Writing appears, and we start calling it history
Why
Eight lines, six million years. Note where writing sits: at the very bottom, arriving so late that everything above it, the whole of what made us human, is filed as "before."
Practise Synthesis: The Human Journey
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